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Blog: Technology and Learning The Nix: A novel by Nathan Hill Published in August of 2016. I read The Nix on the recommendation of MIT’s Michael Rutter , who commented on my piece On Searc ... Read more

In a new study, Harvard researchers say they may be able to estimate how glaciers moved by examining how the weight of the ice sheet altered topography and led to changes in the course of rivers. The ... Read more

I am delighted to offer another guest post contributed in response to my recent call for contributions to the blog by black women and other women of color. If you’d like to submit a post or an i ... Read more

Retraction Watch readers may have followed our coverage of the case of Christian Kreipke, a former Wayne State researcher who was recently barred from U.S. Federal funding for five years. That punishm ... Read more

We all know that our community -- and our society -- face major challenges around diversity and inclusion. Many of us are committed to tackling these challenges at the individual level, but what are o ... Read more

When he was in graduate school and working toward a doctorate in computer science, Arthur Carvalho made a life-changing decision. “It was 2012, and my friend suggested that we invest some money ... Read more

Two years into Michael S. Brophy’s presidency at Benedictine University, in October, the Board of Trustees said it was reappointing him through 2022. Brophy made it 10 months and six days from t ... Read more

More than 2,000 career education programs serving over half a million students risked losing access to Title IV federal student aid under the Obama administration’s gainful-employment rule. ... Read more

Facing questions about why an associate professor of English banned from advising graduate students and taken off the graduate teaching schedule was slated to teach undergraduates this fall instead, t ... Read more

Category: Carpe Careers You can’t figure out which jobs have the possibility to become your vocation, writes Melissa Dalgleish, until you first figure out yourself and your signature strengths. ... Read more

A report released today by Ithaka S+R examines what community college students say are their goals and challenges when navigating their institutions and how campus libraries may help them with their n ... Read more

Benefits from New York State’s much-touted Excelsior Scholarship have gone to 3.2 percent of undergraduates statewide, and the free-tuition program has covered far more students outside New ... Read more

The provost at the University of San Francisco has reached out to Chinese university students to show support after President Trump reportedly said most students from China in the U.S. are spies . &ld ... Read more

A renowned scholar from China’s Uighur ethnic minority group disappeared in December, and her family and friends believe she was secretly detained as part of the Chinese government’s sever ... Read more

New final guidance published Thursday by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will change the way international students and visiting scholars on F, J or M visas are found to accrue “unlawf ... Read more

A German journalism student at Tsinghua University was denied a new visa to stay in China, likely, he believes, because he filmed a documentary on human rights lawyers as an assignment for a class. Th ... Read more

Multiple members of the University of Maryland at College Park athletics staff have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an external review of the death of Jordan McNair, a Maryl ... Read more

A report released Thursday by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) shows a decline in enrollment in colleges of education and many impending faculty retirements. The asso ... Read more

Today on the Academic Minute , part of Washington College Week, Aaron Lampman, an associate professor in the department of anthropology, examines why many coastal residents don't accept the idea t ... Read more

Following months of protests and meetings with administrators, non-tenure-track faculty members at the University of Iowa won expanded health insurance benefits, dependent coverage and retirement and ... Read more

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